SAINTS, SINNERS AND SPECIAL PEOPLE

Resource #
SET • SSSR414W

Price $149.95

Program Contents: Facilitator's handbook, Audio CD with spoken orientation, Step-by-step workshop outline, 8 minutes Video and discussion guide, Disability history cards, Participatory activities, Role-play exercises, Overheads and masters .

Captioning: None

Copyright Date: 2004

PROFESSIONAL EDITION

The moral viewpoint sees people with disabilities as morally different from others, as sinners or saints, frightening or innocent. For thousands of years, attitudes of the moral view have fostered segregation, ridicule and violence toward people with disabilities.

In this program participants explore the history and continuing influence of this moral viewpoint.

Exercises help create the experience of naming and responding to this viewpoint in a variety of real-life situations. Participants build skills to notice the ill effects of the moral view, to talk openly about steps we can all take to work against it, and to move beyond moral labels and treat each other with dignity.